Moving Towards Behavioral Stadium Attendance Demand Research: First Lessons Learned from Exploring Football Spectator No-Show Behavior in Europe

Stadium attendance demand research is firmly anchored in the literature on the economics of sports. In fact, we sports economists, in particular, have tested both Rottenberg’s (1956) original stadium attendance demand specification and its extensions extensively over the last few decades. While there exists a great interest in gradually expanding the boundaries of this important research stream by subsequently analyzing additional sports in...